The leftists are really in all-out war on freedom. And the media's matter-of-fact reporting on this totalitarian power grab is stunning as well.

"Can a government be considered in rebellion against a nation’s laws
and its established order? That is the bizarre situation we find
ourselves in. There is no shot fired at Fort Sumter. Instead a million
conspirators tear apart and remake the system in countless ways on a
daily basis while the leadership remains in open rebellion of the laws
that it is obligated to abide by and enforce." (Daniel Greenfield here)

Annapolis Council To Consider Stripping Republican Mayor-Elect’s Power By the Asscoated Press, November 10, 2013 (thanks to David)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Days after a Republican was elected mayor of Annapolis, City Council members say they will revisit legislation that would strip the mayor’s office of much of its power.

Democratic Alderman Ross Arnett of Ward 8 tells The Capital he will introduce a charter amendment to move Annapolis to a council-manager style of government. The city manager would report directly to the City Council, not the mayor.

Under Arnett’s legislation, the mayor’s post would be largely ceremonial. The mayor would retain a single vote on the council. Arnett says the change would stabilize the city’s management.

If the measure is approved, it would mean the Democratic-dominated council would be removing the powers of the first Republican mayor elected since 1997.

This nasty piece of work means to be President of the United States. After Obama, the more subversive and criminal, the better the chances for election. Look at de Blasio. He is a hard core marxist and terror supporter.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a frontrunner to
be the Democrats’ 2016 presidential candidate, hosted a fundraiser for
New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio on Monday
night. But it was no ordinary fundraiser, Breitbart News has learned.

At least one of the main figures at the event is a convicted
financial criminal, and another has come under the glare of federal
authorities for alleged financial malfeasance.

Paul Adler once served as the chairman of the Democratic Party in Rockland County, New York, and according to a September 2000 article in the New York Times,
“was one of the county's earlier and most ardent supporters of Hillary
Rodham Clinton in her race for the United States Senate.”

And Obama just gave these thieving bastards 320 million dollars, but our military dead get no funeral or death benefit.

Keep voting for democrats, suckers.

NPR: Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of, among other things,
extortion, fraud and conspiracy. During the trial he was accused of
running a kick-back scheme that fattened his bank account by tens of
thousands of dollars.

When it comes to public corruption, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is the worst of the worst.

That’s
what federal prosecutors argued on Thursday in asking a judge to sentence Kilpatrick to at least 28 years in prison for his multitude of
crimes — a request that raised eyebrows within the legal community as
some experts said Kilpatrick could get the stiffest punishment for
public corruption in U.S. history.

The government says he deserves it, noting Kilpatrick’s sentencing guidelines call for up to life in prison.

“Kilpatrick is more culpable — and his conduct more pervasive — than
any other public corruption defendant sentenced in recent memory. His
guideline range reflects that. So should his sentence,” federal
prosecutors wrote in their 57-page sentencing memo.

In pushing for
a tough sentence, prosecutors argued that Kilpatrick abused the
public’s trust for years, put his own needs before those of the
impoverished city he was supposed to serve, and ran a racket out of his
office so that he, his family and his longtime contractor friend, Bobby
Ferguson, could get rich.

“And worst of all, he did it a city
where poverty, crime and a lack of basic services made it one of the
most vulnerable metropolitan areas in the nation,” prosecutors wrote.
“The scale of his corruption was astonishing. The impact on the region
was devastating.”

The Obama administration in invoking an obscure "special privilege" to stop scrutiny of data mining. Here's the thing. Obama has scrubbed all counter terror materials of jihad. Obama has said that al qaeda is defeated. Obama called the Fort Hood Jihad "workplace violence." Obama has said of Islam, "respect it!"

So who exactly is the diabolist going after? And who does the philo-jihadist in the White House think is the enemy?

Off topic but related: where is the American lapdog media on this? Hiding under their smelly desks. All these Obama o-bombshells are coming from foreign media sources.

Obama and like minded Louis Farrakhan

US government invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining The Guardian, June 16, 2013

Civil liberties lawyers trying to hold the administration to account through the courts for its surveillance of phone calls and emails of American citizens
have been repeatedly stymied by the government's recourse to the
"military and state secrets privilege". The precedent, rarely used but
devastating in its legal impact, allows the government to claim that it
cannot be submitted to judicial oversight because to do so it would have
to compromise national security.

The government has cited the
privilege in two active lawsuits being heard by a federal court in the
northern district of California – Virginia v Barack Obama et al, and
Carolyn Jewel v the National Security Agency. In both cases, the Obama
administration has called for the cases to be dismissed on the grounds
that the government's secret activities must remain secret.

The
claim comes amid a billowing furore over US surveillance on the mass
communications of Americans following disclosures by the Guardian of a
massive NSA monitoring programme of Verizon phone records and internet communications.

The results are in. Despite criticism,
the inclusion of Louis Farrakhan with Alabama Democrats on a tour to
rally support for federal preclearance obligations of the Voting Rights
Act brought warm accolades from those at the rally. The Birmingham News reports:

“What
I know is Minister Farrakhan will give us words of wisdom and true
guidance and words to unite people,” said Brenda Beyah, a new resident
of Birmingham. “I would like to see those who are meant to be here to
come and fellowship with one another.”

Tuskegee
Mayor Johnny Ford at the Birmingham rally told gatherers that Farrakhan
is a strong leader among African-Americans. Farrakhan is the “only
black man in America who was able to bring more than a million black men
to the nation’s capital,” Ford said.

Gregory
Jones, assistant to Birmingham Mayor William Bell, said the city’s top
leader could not attend today’s rally because his mother is in the
hospital. “The City of Birmingham stands firmly in support of Section
5,” Jones told the crowd.

Jones
noted support for Farrakhan’s visit to the city for the rally. “For Mr.
Farrakhan to lend his name and credibility to this cause is very, very
important to us,” he said.

Marion
Nu’Man, who lives in Birmingham, sat in the shade by the fountain in
Kelly Ingram Park to await Farrakhan’s speech. “I think all so-called
religions and knowledgeable people are looking for the Jesus,” she said.
“Today they will be able to see him.”

Not everyone was impressed with the racist anti-Semite appearing at a rally to support Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act:

“Yet,
there was Farrakhan, a man who openly compares Jews to Satan, speaking
not too far away from a tree planted in the park commemorating Anne
Frank, the young Jewish girl who perished in the Holocaust whose diary
has inspired millions,” Richard Friedman wrote.

Here is a nice little summation of things. One of my e-buds sent this to me. Her son Ray from Long Island wrote it and it is, IMAO, the best little run down of the DNC's hot mess of a convention:

So now the
DemoRats have had their turn. They used it to bash the selfish, successful
individuals and lectured us about fairness, compassion and a
benevolent, all-powerful Big Government without which we morons couldn't
possibly survive. I couldn't stand to watch much of it, but here are some of
the lowlights. (click on any of the links below to see either the speeches
themselves, or commentary thereon.

Day one
reached its pinnacle (hit rock bottom?) when our First Lady implored us to give her husband four
more years to 'Fundamentally Transform America' into a European Socialist
state because she loves him and he's a nice guy who cares. Tell that to the 23
million unemployed!

Day 2 had a
few significant events:

First the
'Rats' decided God and Jerusalem don't belong in the party platform. Then
in the face of Republican attacks and mounting backlash from Jewish
donors, Obummer - in typical leading from behind fashion - "personally intervened" and VOILA!, the convention's
chairman rammed through platform changes, (which of course were "The One's"
opinions all along), in spite of the obvious Democratic objections .

Next, Sandra
Fluke, (the 30 year old law student (who thinks its her right that
you should pay for her contraceptives), ratcheted up the volume on the
supposed 'Republican War On Women.' Oh, the irony.

By glorifying
Ted (Chappaquiddick) Kennedy the day before and giving Bill ("I did not
have sexual relations with that woman") Clinton the keynote address, the Dems
elevated the only people to have caused actual casualties in that war -
with Kennedy having its only confirmed kill.

Then Elizabeth Warren spent her time calling for more government
spending and trashing Wall Street and CEOs - you know, the people
who create jobs - while conveniently failing to mention the record millions in campaign contributions both she and her
Messiah raked in from those very demons.

Finally, Clinton tried to convince America that - despite all the evidence to the contrary - "of course" we are better
off than we were 4 years ago (the private economy's doing fine?) These guys
must be big Marx Brothers fans - "Who
you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" - Chico Marx (Duck Soup)
It all
reached its climax (or was that Chris Matthews?) when our Liar-In-Chief descended from on high to deliver the same
soaring rhetoric we've heard time and time again, filled with the same
empty promises he failed to deliver on in the last four years,
and completely ignoring utter failure his policies have wrought on our economy
which have disproportionately devastated the poor and middle income
folks he purports to stand for.

Calling for
more "Investments" in "Roads & Bridges" - like the 6% of the $850B
stimulus (borrowed from China) that didn't go to his bundler buddies.

Taking credit
for the few bright spots - like increased Natural Gas production - that
flourished on private land in spite of the EPA's efforts to shut it down.
Lying about his Foreign Policy "successes" (yeah, he reluctantly gave the
"bold" order for the Navy Seals to take out Bin Laden).

Reasserting
ever-increasing Government Bureaucracy as the answer to everything.

Urging us to
look "Forward" because if we look back and judge him on his miserable
record of failure, he's done.

Some
"success."--Our allies don't trust us, our enemies laugh at us, the Muslim
Brotherhood is taking over the Middle East, and Iran daily threatens the
very existence of Israel with a looming nuclear holocaust.

If you have
the stomach for it, watch this
speech. See if you can get through it without vomiting, pointing out every
lie he tells and getting fired up to defeat him in November.

Check out Hamas-CAIR working furiously within the Democ-rat party. With the Muslim Brotherhood stooge in the White House, they can't lose. Know it or not, America is currently engaged in a low grade civil war. Freedom vs fascism. Humanity vs savagery. And the battle is for nothing less than the very soul of America. Freedom.

Hamas-linked
CAIR's Nihad Awad on al-Jazeera from DNC: "The Democratic Party's
political platform with regard to the Middle East is developing" (thanks to Robert Spencer)

In other words, yes, this was a public relations disaster, and yes, they
put the language back in, but don't worry -- the Democrats' position is
"developing" in an anti-Israel direction. "CAIR Executive Director
Nihad Awad, Interviewed From Inside Democratic Convention: US Democratic
Party's Political Platform on Middle East Is Developing," from MEMRI, September 5:

Following are excerpts from an interview with CAIR Executive
Director Nihad Awad, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on September 5, 2012.

Reporter: Mr. Awad, let's first talk about the Democrats' removal of
the sentence "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel" from their political
platform. What significance do you attribute to this omission?

Nihad Awad: This is an indication that the Democratic Party's
political platform with regard to the Middle East is developing.
However, this does not digress from the usual commitment of both the
Democratic and Republican parties to deal with Israel the same way as in
the past. This reflects a development in the ideology of the cadres of
the Democratic Party, some of which are new generations of American Jews
who different from their parents and believe in peace and coexistence.
The changes in the Middle East and the rise of new governments seem to
be changing the rules of the game and the cadres of the Democratic Party
appreciate that.

Or as the crude and arrogant Islamic supremacistBoy
Reza Aslan put it in a gleeful tweet that I found the other day while
dumpster-diving among the "protected" Twitter accounts of Islamic
supremacists:

Senator Chuck Schumer does not know President Obama's position on Jerusalem.

Watch the worm turn. It is strangely entertaining to watch Chuck Schumer's twisted tongue get .... tongue-tied. When Schumer was a lowly NYS Assembly member and then House member from a very religious district in Brooklyn, he would pretend to be frum (religious) to con the orthodox Jews in his Brooklyn
district that he was "one of them." That is evil. A friend of mine was a lawyer in his Brooklyn office at the time. She was a true blue Democrat then, but the things she saw made her skin crawl.

Schumer lobbied against the nomination of one of
Israel's great friends, Ambassador John Bolton. Snake. Low life snake, I
tell ya.

“The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want
the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the
air. I am for that… But you can’t say government hands off in one area
to a commercial enterprise but you are allowed to intervene in another.
That’s not consistent.” …

Revelations in the gossipy book Game Change show us
that Schumer was instrumental in throwing Hillary under the bus, helping make Obama the candidate, the most anti-Israel Presdient in history.

Schumer will answer to a higher authority.

Democrats are scheming to manipulate the electoral process this
election year by implementing a federal mandate to involuntarily
register millions of people to vote – making the system ripe for
unprecedented fraud and abuse.
"Democrats were very rattled by the Nov. 3 election results," Wall Street Journal reporter and political commentator John Fund
told a crowd in November 2009, at a David Horowitz Freedom Center
forum. "What do liberals do when they lose elections? They change the
rules."

The Free Beacon report showed how while in 2004 and 2008 the
Democratic Party platform called for Palestinian refugees to be settled
in a future Palestinian state — and explicitly not in Israel — the 2012
platform makes no mention of the issue. Similarly, the 2012 platform
doesn’t explicitly take a stand on dealing with the Palestinian
terrorist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip, yet in 2008 the
platform declared: “The United States and its Quartet partners should
continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes
Israel’s right to exist, and abides by past agreements.” The platform
does, however, “insist that any Palestinian partner must recognize
Israel’s right to exist, reject violence, and adhere to existing
agreements.”*

On the issue of Jerusalem, this year’s Democratic platform doesn’t
take the stand that the city is the capital of Israel, while in past
platforms it was explicitly stated.

It gives me no pleasure to say I told ya so. Obama's anti-Israel proclivities were evident in the run-up to the election. I wrote of it extensively at Atlas and in my book,
The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America. Of course, my warnings were pooh-poohed, and Jewish "intellectuals" wrongly lionized by the diaspora chose instead to buy into the Alan Dershowitz's delusions. Listen to this putz:

“I think one shouldn’t give too much weight to platform
pronouncements, but in this case, I think the omissions are troubling —
particularly the omission about the Palestinian refugee issue and Hamas
are, I think, deeply troubling,” he told The Daily Caller

[...]

Dershowitz said he is concerned that this year’s Democratic Party
platform will make Israel a partisan issue, something he thinks is not
good for the U.S.-Israel relationship.

“My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and
never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel,” he
said. “I don’t think it is a good thing that the Republican platform
seems to be more pro-Israel than the Democratic platform.”Dershowtiz said that this is not the last the Democratic Party has heard
about the platform as he is personally going to get to the bottom of
what happened.

“As soon as I hang up with you, I will call people I know in the White
House and in the Democratic Party and find out what’s going on,” he
said. ”But believe me this is not the last the Democrats will have
heard about this issue. They will hear from me on this one.”

The Democratic National Committee has responded
to the controversy over pro-Israel language being deleted from its 2012
platform by pinning the blame on President Obama’s Israel policies. '

CNN’s Dana Bash: I asked the DNC [why it
omitted sections of its 2008 Israel plank from its 2012 platform] and
we have an answer. And their answer was that they were simply following
what the Obama administration’s policy is, and the White House said
several months ago that the status of Jerusalem is an issue that should
be resolved in the final status negotiations between the Israelis and
the Palestinians, and that is why it is not in the platform as it was in
2008.

That was obviously the reason for the platform changes, but it’s
still interesting that the Democratic National Committee pointed the
finger at Obama so quickly. It’s possible the DNC was worried about the
long-term fallout with donors; this seems like one of those issues that
would outrage the DNC’s pro-Israel Democratic contributors.

It’s easy to see how this could snowball into a serious problem for
both the Obama campaign and the Democratic Party. Democrats have been
telling the Jewish community since 2008 that Obama can be trusted on
Israel — and now it turns out his administration isn’t just pursuing
some questionable Israel policies, but also eroding the entire party’s
previous pro-Israel stances.

The mask (or is that mosque?) is off the Democ-rat party. The party of subversion has gone off the cliff. The Democratic National Convention will open
with a focus on Islam. 20,000 Muslims are expected to attend, according
to the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA), led by one of the un-indicted co-conspirators in the World Trade Center bombing. Are Americans in a coma or is the enemedia, yet again, covering up this blatant stealth coup?

But the most disturbing aspect of the entire “Jumah at the DNC” is
not the obvious victimhood-mongering of its agenda, but the people
involved. The Democrats are playing host to an unsavory gang of Islamic
supremacists with numerous ties to jihad groups. Even this is not
surprising, but it should be a matter of concern to any Americans who
are more aware of the jihad threat than the average politically correct
Democrat pol.

Take, for example, BIMA spokesman Jibril Hough. Hough’s mosque, the
Islamic Center of Charlotte, is owned by a Muslim Brotherhood group, the
North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which was named an unindicted
co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case.
When confronted about this on a radio show,
Hough first professed not to be aware of the charges against NAIT, and
then refused to disavow the organization, saying only that he himself
was “not necessarily” a member of NAIT and: “I was not involved in the
decision to allow NAIT to be the [title] holder.”

Meanwhile, the “Grand Imam”
for Jumah at the DNC is none other than Siraj Wahhaj. Wahhaj is one of
the most sought-after speakers on the Muslim circuit, and has addressed
audiences all over the country; in 1991, he even became the first Muslim
to give an invocation to the U.S. Congress. After 9/11, his renown as a
moderate Muslim grew when he declared: “I now feel responsible to
preach, actually to go on a jihad against extremism.” But as with so
many other Muslim leaders in the U.S., Siraj Wahhaj is not as moderate
as he may appear at first glance.

Wahhaj was several years ago designated a “potential unindicted
co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He himself has
denounced this designation as essentially meaningless, but he didn’t
earn it by doing nothing. In the early 1990s he squired the Blind
Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, all around New York City and New Jersey,
sponsoring talks by him in area mosques. The Blind Sheikh, of course, is
now serving a life sentence for his role in the first World Trade
Center bombing in 1993, as well as in jihad plots to blow up the Lincoln
and Holland Tunnels.

When Wahhaj was traveling around with the Blind Sheikh, was Rahman
“moderate,” and then became “radicalized” later? Or did Rahman and
Wahhaj share a supremacist and violent view of Islam, but Wahhaj is
going about his jihad in a way that is less likely than Rahman’s to draw
law enforcement scrutiny? No one ever asks Wahhaj such questions –
least of all Democrat Party politicians.

Nor is Wahhaj’s association with the Blind Sheikh the only blot on
his reputation as a “moderate.” He has warned that the United States
will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.” He has also asserted
that “if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the
United States and replace its constitutional government with a
caliphate.”

So why is such a man acting as the “Grand Imam” at “Jumah at the
DNC”? The Democrats are so in thrall to multiculturalism that it is
likely that few, if any, DNC organizers know or care about Wahhaj’s
Islamic supremacist statements and ties. To raise any concerns about
such a speaker would be “Islamophobic,” violating every rule of the
anti-American, anti-Western ethos that prevails among so many Democrats
today.

Starting
at the end of this month the Democratic National Convention will open
with a focus on Islam. 20,000 Muslims are expected to attend according
to the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA), the national Muslim American non-profit coordinating the two days of events they claim are non-political. ”Jumah at the DNC”
begins August 29 and will start with a Friday afternoon jummah prayer
followed by other unnamed programs and events, leading up to the Islamic
Regal Banquet. The following day will be an all day Islamic Cultural
and Fun Fest which will include discussions on the topics
of Islamaphobia, Anti-Shariah, Middle Eastern Crisis, Patriot Act,
National Defense Authorization Act and more. The purpose, according to
BIMA, is to attract national and international attention to the plight
of American Muslims and to hold political parties accountable for issues
that affect them.

[.....]

Jibril Hough may be a name many in Charlotte are familiar with
already. He is the leader of a Sunni mosque, The Islamic Center of
Charlotte, who is been known for being outspoken
against Representative Sue Myrick – a North Carolina Republican member
of the House Intelligence Committee. Beyond calling her plan to fight
against jihadist activity in America “a fear campaign” and the “new
McCarthyism (or Myrickism)”, he confronted her in a Muslim Town Hall he
organized in 2010. According to Jasser, the language used by Hough as
his Town Hall was strikingly similar to that of the Muslim Brotherhood
when he stated, “As citizens of a non-Muslim country and as American
Muslims, we have a contract with America and not a contract on America.
This means that we must abide by the laws of this state and we cannot be
at war with this state.” As Jasser points out, “note the deep seeded
separatism in this ‘we’ mindset. Basically he is saying that this system
of laws is not his or the Muslims he represents but they will follow
it-for now.” Further, Hough commented on his support of laws that would
mandate “Muslim” behaviors for American-Muslims, but wouldn’t affect
nonMuslims; again Jasser notes Hough’s separatist tone that mimics
political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood mindset, which supports
“separate legal paths for each faith” instead of “one law based in
reason”. Jibril has also stated he is the North Carolina head of the
Islamic Political Party of America(IPPA), based in Charlotte, who in a
2002 press release claimed the Jews were behind 9/11. As if that
weren’t enough, IPPA is close to another organization known as Jamaat Al
Muslimeen (JAM), The Islamic Peoples Movement, who (in addition to
being Holocaust deniers) had this advice for President Obama:

He should ensure that those Muslims he talks to do
represent authentic Islam. All Islamic movements oppose America’s
policies. If Obama talks to Muslims who support America’s policies, it
will be an exercise in futility.

In response to Hough accusing Rep. Myrick of being anti-Muslim, he was interviewed
on the formerly conservative radio station WBT in Charlotte. Radio
host Keith Larson questioned him as to why his mosque was owned by The
North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), an organization blacklisted by the
U.S. Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror finance case in U.S. history. According to the government,
NAIT is also a front for HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood in America.
Hough, when presented by Larson with the documents, claimed he didn’t
realize his mosque was owned by NAIT and was also unaware that they had
been blacklisted. Hough went on in the interview to defend HAMAS and
accuse the U.S. and Israel of the only “real” terrorism.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj is imam of a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, the leader of The Muslim Alliance in North America, a member of CAIR, and an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. As
a character witness for Omar Abdel Rahman (the Blind Sheik) who was
convicted of plotting to blow up the World Trade Center and other New
York City landmarks, Wahhaj described him as a “respected scholar,” and “bold, as a strong preacher of Islam.” Wahhaj is also a Board of Trustee member of the North American Imams Federation
(NAIF)(who’s website currently features an anti-Jewish, anti-black
rant), a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, who (coincidentally)
held a conference in Charlotte last year on Islamophobia. Like Hough, Wahhaj is also connected to NAIT by way of his membership in the Islamic Society of North America(ISNA), which was also found
by the government to be a front for HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood.
While Hough has been careful to play politics in Charlotte, Wahhaj has
not hidden his hatred for America. He is quoted
as calling America, “a garbage can… filthy, filthy and sick.” As an
imam, he has stated, “Where ever you came from, you came to America. And
you came for one reason – for one reason only- to establish Allah’s
deen (a complete way of life).” He believes that the only reason to get
involved in politics is to use it as a weapon in the cause of Islam.
By his own admission, the question of why Wahhaj would be interested in
hosting events at the DNC is obvious.

How
BIMA gained access to the DNC is more of a mystery. Muhammad Heshaam
Jaaber, the Executive Director, Jibril Hough, spokesman, and Captain
James Yusuf Yee, BIMA National Representative for the DNC are the only
publicly identified members and each one appears to be connected to U.S.
Representative Keith Ellison; the first Muslim ever to be elected to
Congress and a former supporter of Louis Farrakhan. Ellison, who
attended President Obama’s Iftar Dinner earlier this month, made the news last
month when Representative Michelle Bachmann called for him (among
others) to be investigated for ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether
or not he has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Ellison is not far from
them having associates within BIMA. Jasser points out that Hough sought
advice from Ellison before proceeding with his Town Hall with Rep.
Myrick. Captain Yee (who will be speaking at the event) appears in
BIMA’s promotional video for Jumah at the DNC quoting Ellison as saying,
“If you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu.” Yee is described
by BIMA as “a chaplain in the U.S. Military” and an “eye witness to to
the unjust treatment of military detainees and prisoners of Guantanamo
Bay” who was allegedly detained “when he took steps to prevent the
injustice.” However, BIMA fails to mention that Yee was charged by the
military with sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage and failure
to obey a general order; charges ultimately dropped due to national
security concerns about releasing evidence in the case. Also speaking
will be Hassen Abdellah, who BIMA has no problem admitting was “a lead
defense attorney for the 1993 First World Trade bombing suspects”
Ellison has also appeared alongside Wahhaj on many speaking engagements
for organizations such as ISNA and NAIF, despite both organizations
being fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood. If Ellison is the link between
BIMA and the DNC, then can it be said that, not only does he not mind
the questionable associations of those within the organization, but also
the other speakers they will be bringing in?

BIMA has stated
they have smaller events planned for the Republican National
Convention, however when reached out to, GOP convention staff said they
have no knowledge of any events planned in or around Tampa at the time.
With the Democratic National Convention only a couple weeks away, it
will be interesting to see if the media chooses to cover what one would
assume to be a controversial start to renominate President Barack Obama.

The latest expose from trailblazing conservative activist James O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas” outs unions and shows how several big-name Democrat New York politicians are colluding to earn state and federal contracts for do-nothing companies purporting to hire for so-called “environmental jobs.”

These pigs are raping the American taxpayers. It's no wonder that Schumer is trying to shut down the first amendment. I am sure he'd try to use it against activists like O'Keefe.

POLITICKER: In the clip, Mr. O’Keefe portrays an executive for a business that literally digs ditches and fills them back up with more dirt. He visits with John Hutchings, [....] "director” of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, and former assemblyman Ronald Tocci and another man who apparently discuss how easy it is for them to use their lobbyists and political connections to get cash for businesses.

“When we go for a bill, you know, you’ve got to get approval of the Senate, and the Assembly and then the Governor’s got to sign that. We have a lobbyist for the Senate [Republicans], and we have a lobbyist for the Democrats and that’s how we try to push our agenda through,” Mr. Hutchings says in the video.

Mr. Hutchings specifically mentions Tom McMahon, Tom Harnet, who he says “usually takes care of” the Democrats in the Assembly and Powers & Company, who “take care of the Senate.”

Mr. O’Keefe’s is best known for releasing videos targeting ACORN that resulted in organization losing federal funding. His partisan ambush attack films have been criticized by his attackers and in 2010 he was arrested and accused of trying to hack into the phone lines in the office of Democratic Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu.

In this clip, which has been heavily edited and features the pop hit “Call Me Maybe,” Mr. O’Keefe and an accomplice painstakingly tell Mr. Hutchings their company does nothing but dig and re-fill ditches.

“You really have to dress up what we do, ’cause all we do is dig holes,” Mr. O’Keefe says.

He goes on to ask if Mr. Hutchings knows “political office holders in New York… who can help us find those–basically excuses to get public funds.”

Mr. Hutchings says New York’s two senators will give them a friendly reception.

According to Mr. Hutchings, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver won’t involved himself in picking the recipients of grants, but he does approve them.

“Shelly Silver wouldn’t say specifically, ‘Fill the dirt there.’ He would have to approve a grant to do that type of stuff, then we’d have to find places where to dig,” Mr. Hutchings says. “He doesn’t want to get involved in picking, that’s where they get into trouble.”

Mr. Hutchings is dismissive of the Green Jobs, Green New York program as well as the NYSERDA grant system, but thinks there’s a positive aspect as long as people are being hired.

“You know, the Green Jobs Green New York, between us, a lot of it’s bullshit,” Mr. Hutchings says. ”Even if it’s bullshit, I think as long as people are working that’s not bullshit.”

Watch Mr. O’Keefe’s edited nearly nine minute version of the video below. He also posted nearly one hour of “raw footage” here.

West gets it. West knows what's at stake. This is war and the American people and our very way of life are under attack. This is very clear. Most folks have been disarmed by an enemedia that dissembles, obfuscates and deceives. The media has abandoned its role of public service in the dissemination of news and information, and instead has become an activist arm for the leftist/ Islamic agenda.

West scares the left. And we need that. Because they are vicious and immoral.

I salute Allen West for calling out the enemy. This. is. war. Make no mistake about it. This is a philosophical war for the heart and soul of America.

Rep. Allen West addresses the GOP and expresses his views on Obama, Reid and Pelosi.

Rep. Allen West-'This is a battlefield that we must stand upon and we need to let president Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and my dear friend, the chairman of the democrat national committee, we need to let them know that Florida is not on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, and take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.'

And the enemedia is is obsessed with Romney's tax returns and Newt's 13-year-old divorce.

A M E R I C A, you are under attack from within.

The O-thugcracy continues to stonewall Congress on this. And the Republicans are trying to find their voice, their testicles, their spine ..... what we have is an abject failure of party leadership. Where is the force of good to battle the forces of darkness?

There was a recent story out there last week that there are at least a dozen more "Solyndra"-type fiascos -- similar, Obama-financed green companies in the same situation, i.e., looting and burning through American taxpayer dollars. It got NO press.

FREMONT (CBS 5) — After filing for bankruptcy last year, Fremont solar company Solyndra still owes American taxpayers half a billion dollars. But CBS 5 caught them destroying millions of dollars worth of parts.

At Solyndra’s sprawling complex in Fremont, workers in white jumpsuits were unwrapping brand new glass tubes used in solar panels last week. They are the latest, most cutting-edge solar technology, and they are being thrown into dumpsters.

Forklifts brought one pallet after another piled high with the carefully packaged glass. Slowly but surely it all ended up shattered.

And it’s not a few loads. Hundreds of thousands of tubes on shrink-wrapped pallets will meet a similar demise.

Solyndra paid at least $2 million for the specialized glass. A CBS 5 crew found one piece lying in the parking lot. Solyndra still owes the German company that made the tubes close to another $8 million.

This is straight out of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged -- what next? The "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule," and "The Equalization of Opportunity Bill"?

Rand characterizes the actions of government employees ... describing how the language of altruism is used to pass legislation that is only marginally in the public interest (e.g., the "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule", and "The Equalization of Opportunity Bill") but which in reality serves special interests and government agencies at the expense of the public and the producers of value.

In the world of Atlas Shrugged, society stagnates when independent productive achievers are socially demonized and even punished for their accomplishments. (more here)

Is this not what we are experiencing now?

The Democrats stoke the fear of gas price increases to impose statist price/profit controls, but refuse to drill our own resources, refuse fracking, shale, refuse the Keystone Pipeline. America, wake up! The destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society.

Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a "Reasonable Profits Board" to control gas profits.

The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a "windfall profit tax" as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation. The bill provides no specific guidance for how the board would determine what constitutes a reasonable profit.

The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding "a reasonable profit." It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees from Congress.

The bill would also seem to exclude industry representatives from the board, as it says members "shall have no financial interests in any of the businesses for which reasonable profits are determined by the Board."

According to the bill, a windfall tax of 50 percent would be applied when the sale of oil or gas leads to a profit of between 100 percent and 102 percent of a reasonable profit. The windfall tax would jump to 75 percent when the profit is between 102 and 105 percent of a reasonable profit, and above that, the windfall tax would be 100 percent. The bill also specifies that the oil-and-gas companies, as the seller, would have to pay this tax.

Kucinich said these tax revenues would be used to fund alternative transportation programs when oil-and-gas prices spike.

"Gas prices continue to rise, creating a hardship for the American people," he said. "At the same time, oil companies are making record profits gouging their customers. This bill would tax only the excess profits and create forward-thinking transportation alternatives."

Specifically, he said the money would be used to fund a tax credit on the purchase of fuel-efficient cars and set up a grant program for mass transit programs when oil-and-gas prices are high.

The bill does not estimate the size of these grants or the amount of money that might be collected through the tax.

UPDATE – We checked Wikipedia and several other articles we Googled and they had Diana Wasserman listed as Debbie Wasserman’s mother:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (born September 27, 1966) is the U.S. … She is the daughter of former Broward Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin…

A local Broward blog says that Diana Wasserman is NOT Debbie Wassmerman’s mother, rather Diana Wasserman is just another lying, corrupt Florida Democrat who has engaged in criminal activity. At this point we do not know if they are related or not as several sources are in conflict. If it is a mistake it is an honest one and one that we had sources for – Editor.

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The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Moochers, looters and destroyers.

Richard Rubin — husband of former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who still faces seven felony charges of her own — was sentenced this morning to ten months in federal prison.

Rubin, 66, pleaded guilty in April to federal tax evasion after failing to report $100,000 in fees he received from the town of Davie for a land deal he brokered in 2004.

With attorney David Bogenschutz at his side, Rubin managed to get only ten months up the river — which is in accordance with sentencing guidelines but much less than the maximum penalty of five years.

Rubin had said in court that he and the wife faced financial burdens from damage done to their home by Hurricane Wilma and also owed on a loan he could not repay — which is why he attempted to cheat on his taxes a bit.

That also wasn’t too long after Rubin took in $1.1 million for writing grants for the town of Southwest Ranches — grants that were approved in part by the votes of his wife while she was a county commissioner.

Then, the probable-cause affidavit released last year contended, the couple was living quite lavishly — including spending money on artwork, cruises, vacations to Europe, and a $150,000 home repair project.

Rubin wasn’t charged with tax evasion until April of this year.

The State Attorney’s Office, however, charged Wasserman-Rubin last year with seven counts of felony unlawful compensation related to her votes for her husband’s grant-writing.

I have written previously that it is depraved and degenerate that federal workers' median salary is almost double that of a private sector employee. It is public "service"; where's the "service"? It is even more depraved that Obama is proposing a pay raise for civilian federal workers in his new budget. People can't find work and these parasites are getting a raise. Moochers and looters are making the laws. They must be stopped.

Further, under the socialized medical program of Obamacare, the rest of us won’t have “the same health care” as Congress. Nice. Their medical plans are "significantly more generous than most Americans are getting," according to Mark McClellan, a doctor and economist at the Brookings Institution.

How is all of this happening without the masses rising up in horror? The enemedia keeps folks in the dark.

Remember when the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore wrote that we have “become a nation of takers” as opposed to a “nation of makers”?

What did he mean by that?

“More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined,” Moore wrote back April. “Nearly half of the $2.2 trillion cost of state and local governments is the $1 trillion-a-year tab for pay and benefits of state and local employees.”

Therefore, it comes as no surprise that so many states and cities cannot pay their bills, Moore concluded.

Eight months later, it appears that his analysis may have been spot-on correct.

“Federal pay rose an average of 1.3 percent for the budget year that ended Sept. 30, according to newly released federal data,” USA Today reports.

By comparison, the wages of private workers rose 1.2 percent during the period, the same rate as state and local government pay growth, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

Translation: now is a great time to be a Federal worker.

“Federal workers made an average $75,296 in pay last year, plus $28,323 in medical, pension and other benefits,” a USA Today analysis found.

“That’s about 60 percent more than the average private wage, a difference explained largely by higher education levels and more professional jobs in the federal workforce,” the report adds.

"The then-press secretary Robert Gibbs was apparently often dispatched to placate Mrs Obama when limits were put on the amount she could spend on clothes or White House redecoration, as well as to explain why she could not take private holiday while on state visits." --Raf Sanchez

The White House effort comes despite reports in USA Today and other media outlets that the federal workforce -- which has grown substantially under the Obama administration -- is already grossly overpaid compared to the private sector. Please consider the following snippets of articles from USA Today:

• Federal workers earning double their private counterparts: "At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn... Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis... The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year."

• Federal workers starting at much higher pay than in past: "Newly hired federal workers are starting at much higher salaries than those who did the same jobs in the past, a lift that has elevated the salaries of scientists and custodians alike... A 20- to 24-year-old auto mechanic started at an average of $46,427 this year, up from $36,750 five years ago... A 30- to 34-year-old lawyer started at an average of $101,045 this year, up from $79,177 five years ago... And a mechanical engineer, age 25 to 29, started at $63,675, up from $51,746 in 2006..."

This sort of waste, fraud and abuse is exemplified by jobs like a $103,000-a-year Invitations Coordinator for the so-called "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau". The compensation package includes 10 paid holidays, 13 days of sick leave, and [up to] 26 days of vacation time each year (i.e., more than five weeks).

New York has been the epicenter of targeted Islamic attacks in North America (clearly Israel has that distinction in the Middle East). The NYPD has thwarted massive attacks on our subway system, stadiums, major synagogues, Times Square, etc.

It's not that New York is lucky. New York has an extraordinary counter-terror force. But Hamas-tied CAIR is the enemy, so anything we do to defend this great nation, any act of self-defense will be twisted and portrayed as an aggression against Muslims.

And now Muslim Brotherhood-linked CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) has gotten 34 Congress members to turn quisling and sign on with their efforts to stymie our resistance to jihad. Insofar as these Useful Idiots do CAIR's bidding, they are declaring themselves aligned with an enemy that means to destroy and conquer the United States of America.

“America has crossed an unthinkable threshold: our national debt now exceeds $15 trillion dollars. That’s more than $48,000 per citizen," Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said. “In 2009, President Obama promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Instead, he further accelerated its growth, producing three years of record deficits."

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pointed out that $4.4 trillion in debt had been added since Obama took office.

"Our skyrocketing debt burden is not just bad luck; it is the predictable outcome of President Obama’s policies," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said.

While Republicans point out that Obama added $800 billion to the debt through his 2009 stimulus package, Democrats say the best way to solve the budget problem is to let the Bush-era tax rates expire. They also note that Obama inherited a recession when he came into office and that the recession lowered incoming tax revenue.

Every single American owes $50,000, including the moochers and the looters. The violent mob has no intention of paying, and will the thugocracy in power to force the producers to pay?

So the 50% who work really each owe $100,000; the other 50% get government checks...